Quotes About Wisdom

I decided then and there never to become someone who told jokes when explanations were impossible.

Before you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live, Oskar. Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently. I would change my life. Foer, Jonathan Safran (2006-04-04). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel (Kindle Locations 1939-1940). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

And when she said, Father, I love you , she was neither naive nor dishonest, but the opposite: she was wise and truthful enough to lie.

He saw what they either couldn't see or couldn't allow themselves to see, and that only made him more pissed, because being less stupid than one's parents is repulsive, like taking a gulp from a glass of milk that you thought was orange juice.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live. Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently. I would change my life.

Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children and children are always smarter than their parents.

The more I found, the less I understood.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live, Oskar.     Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently.

Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live, Oskar.     Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently. I would change my life.

It's better to lose something than never to have had

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live, Oskar. Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently. I would change my life. I would kiss my piano teacher, even if he laughed at me. I would jump with Mary on the bed, even if I made a fool of myself. I would send out ugly photographs, thousands of them.

The older one gets, the harder it is to account for time. Children ask: "Are we there yet?" Adults: "How did we get here so quickly?

Cartile sunt pentru aceia care nu au vieti adevarate.

The letter was destroyed, but its final paragraph is still inside of me. She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with the chance to live my life again. I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently.

and that's only because I'm older than you. Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

How do you know all that?" "I like knowing things." "Me, too.

Seeing your own smallness is called insight Honoring your own tenderness is called strength

a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young.

Words are the clothing of our thoughts.

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.

As learnèd commentators view In Homer more than Homer knew.